Elmwood Cemetery was established on August 28, 1852. Buried here are Memphis pioneer families, 14 Confederate generals, victims of the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1878, Governors Isham G. Harris and James C. Jones, U.S. Senators Kenneth D. McKellar, Thomas B. Turley, and Stephen Adams, who succeeded Jefferson Davis in the Senate, E.H. Crump, a prominent political leader for decades, along with 21 other mayors of Memphis, and Robert Church, the South's first black millionaire.
